[Chicago] xml encodings, umlauts, ouch

[Pete]

On Apr 15, 2009, at 10:41 PM, Aaron Lav wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 09:37:25PM -0500, Kumar McMillan wrote:
>> Dear gurus,

<more than you ever wanted to know about xml & encoding>

> you'll have to add some hackish preprocessing or postprocessing.

Seems like this is a common enough problem... a  
dear_diety_please_fix_this_broken_xml(..) OSS library would have made  
for a good (though perhaps unsexy) Pycon sprint.  Maybe next  year...   
unless we start sprinting at Chipy. ;-P

--Pete